[Spacewalk-list] Solaris patching pitfall

[Lopez, Abel]

Hello all,
I've just began playing around with spacewalk, and my first attempt to patch a solaris 10 sparc system seems to have stalled.
It's been stuck at 0% for quite a while now - Any thoughts?


root at XXXXXX# /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check 
Installing patch cluster:  [[['patch-cluster-solaris-10_Recommended', '20100928', '1', 'sparc-solaris-patch-cluster', 'sol10-sparc'], {}]]
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...
Fetching packages...                                                           
-> rhn://sol10-sparc/.../patch-cluster-solaris-10_Recommended-20100928-1.sparc-solaris-patch-cluster.zip
patch-cluster-solaris-10_Reco.. ######################################## [100%]

                                                                               
Committing transaction...
Installing patch-cluster-sola..                                          (  0%)

ps and truss
ps -ef | grep rhn
    root  3162     1   0   Oct 01 ?           0:00 /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhnsd --interval 240
    root  3867  3866   0 10:54:41 pts/1       0:00 unzip /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/var/lib/smart/packages/patch-cluster-solaris-10_R
    root  3866  3841   0 10:54:41 pts/1       0:00 sh -c { unzip /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/var/lib/smart/packages/patch-cluster-sola
    root  3841  3840   0 10:52:54 pts/1       0:26 /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/bin/python /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check
    root  3962  3870   0 11:28:14 pts/2       0:00 grep rhn
root at lauxsc05# truss -p 3867
read(0, 0xFF339C48, 1024)       (sleeping...)